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He died like a Russian dissident except his death was actually an accident

I think calling him sundowning is attributing his malice instead to old age.

He’s a line-upping old pedo. He has “insider trading syndrome” which on the surface appears like dementia…

Yeah it’s pretty smart too since he’ll be dead in the next 10 years or less so he won’t have to live with consequences…

“Helicopter” isn’t heli - copter

It’s helico - pter.

Helico: Greek for helix or spiral.

Pter: Greek for wing, like a pterodactyl.

Honestly it’s a result of being the world’s reserve currency. At one point Brazil was the capital of rubber, and like 2 towns in Brazil made all of the latex the world used. They used to ship their clothing to Europe to be washed. Then 900 rubber tree seeds were smuggled out and it crashed their monopoly, devastating those towns.

Much the same has happened to the US when you can deindustrialize and print without consequences. The same happened to Spain with their silver mines in the age of sail. Silver flowed through Spain, but didn’t stay there… It was cheaper to buy foreign goods in Spanish silver than to pay a Spaniard to do it. When the silver ran out it all crumbled…

Trump killed the petrodollar and it’s going to turn the US into an inward looking regional power…

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Kinda? it depends. Basically all modern CPUs have compression hardware acceleration or idle cores, though so sometimes disk compression can have little to no impact on your OS’ speed but increase the bandwidth of your drive by a lot. Hard drives and SSDs are half simplex, so reducing nuisance reads by 10% can make your drive appear faster at both reads and writes.

As an aside, this is why I like ZFS so much. Part of what makes ZFS great is the ARC cache with smart eviction. Most Frequently/Recently Used (MFU/MRU) allows for repeated reads from the same info to come from RAM and not a slow pool. It opens up all of that available bandwidth and IOPs for writes if you need too, or for aggressive prefetching.

I think what’s funniest to me is he was very close to recreating a real windows feature. You actually can “compress files to save space” under options, and apply it to all child files and folders. This is not the way to do it though lmao

One of the most important elements in successful revolutions is recruiting class traitors. They have the means to make it successful and work the establishment from the inside as well.

I have a suggestion!

One of these puppies will chew through literally anything, and you can run it as slow as you want as you feed them in feet first!

Alternatively we could also use the Wall Street Brazen bull

The other thing businesses do that should be illegal is target “high cost” employees.

Their healthcare insurance provider will provide them a monthly report and if you suddenly start $1 million worth of chemo it shows up in next month’s bill. The insurance provider doesn’t tell them who it is by law, but they DO tell them it’s costing the company a ton and hiking their monthly premiums. in a company of 100 people it’s not hard to figure out who it is…

Grandpa’s strongest potion:

10 lbs of sugar

As many crab apples as you can get from your grandpas crab apple tree

Juice them all

Mix juice with sugar in sanitized fermentation bucket (use starsan) and add enough boiling water to get up to 10% ABV on your gauge.

Rehydrate yeast in a lukewarm dilute sugar solution so you don’t shock it.

Add to mash and seal with airlock

Ferment until there’s no change in specific gravity between days

Rack your wash off of the Lee’s into a different jug and start distilling it with a water distillation still.

Once you have a first pass done, distill it again and toss the foreshot this time.

Stop distilling when the alcohol content drops below about 48% or when it tastes horrible.

Typically you end up with 68-80% ABV potion. Grandpa’s strongest potion also gives grandpa strongest hangover, so watch out.

Not meaningfully, no. In the middle of a dry desert far from other bodies of water you could theoretically form cumulus clouds downwind of your site (I have heard of this happening), but it would be teeny tiny.

The amount of water evaporation is just orders of magnitude too small. The earth gets about 1kW of energy per square meter, so a 9GW data center is approximately the same amount of waste heat as 9 million square meters, which is 900 hectares.

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There are also a few Inuit groups who made knives for centuries from a metallic meteorite that landed in the arctic circle.